Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Peter Boehm

summit: The G7 leaders largely focused their discussions on the global economy as the summit got underway. ____ Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is making a push at the G7 summit that will likely broaden a previous agreement by the leaders to stop paying ransom for the release of kidnapped citizens, according to The Chronicle Herald. Peter Boehm, Trudeau personal representative at the G7 summit, told reporters in Japan that there a growing sense around the table that the problem isn't going away and by paying ransom you are just aiding and abetting the terrorists. ____ Canada ambassador to Ireland, best known for his role in fatally shooting an armed assailant inside the Parliament buildings in 2014, has once again stepped into an apparent security breach. He said trade-intensive industries pay 50 per cent higher wages. Kevin Vickers, the former House of Commons sergeant-at-arms, tackled a protester Thursday in Dublin during a ceremony to remember British soldiers killed in the 1916 Easter Rising, which also claimed the lives of some 450 Irish republicans. They say the excesses add up to $100 million. A Canadian government spokesman says Vickers stopped a protester who ran up to the podium. ___ Federal auditors have found about contractors either overcharged the government or made excessive profits. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.